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antoine-roquentin · 3 years ago

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Downwardly mobile white blue-collar workers and upwardly mobile white small business owners met in the grassroots of the conservative movement. The most substantial failing of The People, No is that it adheres to Frank’s thesis in What’s the Matter with Kansas: that elites manipulated “ordinary people” into the movement with pseudo-populist culture-war rhetoric while enacting their real economic agenda behind the scenes. In fact, when rank-and-file conservatives repudiated the New Deal order, the economic and cultural were so thoroughly intertwined as to be inseparable.

Before they were loyal to national politicians, many workers were loyal to particular firms and employers. The economy that replaced the New Deal order was built by industries that kept alive the capital-P Populist dream of small proprietorship and dignified, autonomous work, even as good jobs in manufacturing and family farming became increasingly scarce. “We say to you that you have made the definition of a business man too limited,” Populist leader William Jennings Bryan thundered in 1896. “The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer” — that is, if his work was productive and self-directed. For many ordinary people, heirs to the Populist tradition, “business man”–style wage work was an appealing alternative to the welfare state dependency — or union dependency — that the contemporary left was depicted as pushing. For all of Frank’s rhetorical sympathy for white “working people,” he is oddly disinterested in the places where they actually worked.

Displaced small farmers had moved into long-distance trucking since the early New Deal period, but it was in the 1960s and 1970s that independent trucking came into its own as one of the great blue-collar romances. An apparent alternative to the corporate bureaucracy and heavy-handed Teamsters union that dominated the industry, the independent trucker burst onto the scene, innumerable country ballads extolling him as one of the last species of American male who truly worked for himself. (“I’m independent,” Kris Kristofferson’s trucker character proclaimed in Sam Peckinpah’s 1978 film Convoy. “There ain’t many of us left.”) Pressure from rank-and-file independent truckers then complemented the manufacturing and shipping lobbies’ successful attempt to deregulate transportation during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The siren song of right-wing working-class populism was not only heard in trucking. Franchised fast food, another artifact of the New Deal order’s investment in auto infrastructure, offered the promise of rapid advancement from menial work to management or even bona fide small business ownership — one of the excuses for keeping wages for entry-level work at poverty levels. Even as corporate franchisees emerged to buy up licenses for dozens of locations at a time, the franchise structure distanced particular sites from the international brand and preserved a simulacrum of community embeddedness.

Up-and-coming retail firms like Amway also used organizational methods to offer employees a taste of what the management literature sometimes called “simulated entrepreneurship.” Amway’s multilevel marketing structure flushed its liability downstream to its often-indebted sales force, but this organizational approach did, at least on paper, provide the opportunity to “build your own business.” Amway’s intensely evangelical Christian internal culture is infamous today. But it’s not as if — extrapolating from Frank’s story about Republican Party culture-war tactics — Amway used Christianity to get unwitting employees in the door to do its economic bidding. On the contrary, Amway’s history is a reminder of the deep intertwining of American Christian culture with economic values of hard work, personal responsibility, and self-ownership. At the end of his life, William Jennings Bryan himself was most famous not for his Populist advocacy but for his outspoken biblical literalism.

The most important post–New Deal retail firm was Walmart. Here too, as the historian Bethany Moreton has written, economic and cultural populism were inseparable. Walmart’s leaders understood the anxieties about proletarianization that its predominantly rural workforce had inherited from the Populist period. Managers worked diligently to encourage employees to conceive of themselves as “associates” rather than workers. They would not simply sell products but would “serve” customers, in an explicitly Christian fashion. Walmart’s practice of hiring wives to work in sales and husbands to work in distribution sought to reforge the family as an economic unit, as it had been before the late 19th-century wave of industrialization and incorporation. Wages were low, but the result was “always low” prices for the stores’ community-based clientele — including its workforce.

As Walmart expanded, the middle-class consumers of Sun Belt suburbia also came to benefit from its always low prices. For the cowboy capitalists, low prices were a hedge against government dependency. By supporting supply chain deregulation and resisting unionization and minimum-wage hikes, consumers could continue to enjoy the “American standard of living” without having to rely on government handouts or high wages attained through class struggle. Behind middle-class consumerism lay the producerism of the Populists’ favorite scripture verse: “If any will not work, neither shall he eat.” Low prices were prices that the middle class could pay, ostensibly, with the sweat of their brow.

Walmart workers and shoppers were not loyal to Walmart “because of” Walmart’s cultural conservatism and “despite” its economic conservatism. Rather, Walmart formed a nexus where economic and cultural conservatism were inseparable and even indistinguishable. As with Amway and McDonald’s, Walmart’s strategy was masterminded by elite leaders capable of astonishing cynicism. But the cynicism of elite leaders does not entail, as Frank and other contemporary left-populists often imply, that the commitment of “ordinary working people” to institutions like Amway, McDonald’s, and Walmart — or the Republican Party — is shallower than it appears. Rather, conservative populism fed on the powerful compatibility between widely and firmly embraced cultural values and the economic interests of particular capitalists.

Like many white blue-collar workers, middle-class Sun Belters also dreamed the Populist dream of family capitalism. Instead of the independent trucker, their cultural heroes were the new class of billionaires that historian Steve Fraser calls “populist plutocrats.” These men were not anonymous corporate overlords but charismatic leaders of empires that they religiously kept in the family. Some of them, like Charles and David Koch and — yes — Donald Trump, inherited their fortunes. But others, like Sam Walton and Amway’s Richard DeVos, could convincingly mythologize themselves as self-made.

What the populist plutocrats held out was simultaneously cultural and economic. They offered a seductive glimpse of an economic order where even the most successful captains of industry were hardworking, personally invested owner-operators, not parasitic money manipulators. “Family values,” as Melinda Cooper has emphasized, were neoliberal economic values, and vice versa. Post–New Deal capitalism, its boosters argued, would be controlled neither by out-of-touch Washington bureaucrats nor by robotic, gray-flannel-suited managers, but by families embedded in their communities. This same logic functioned on the level of public policy: even icy-veined technocrats like the Chicago “human capital” prophet Gary Becker justified rollbacks to the welfare state on the grounds that families would have no choice but to pick up the slack, through debt if necessary, returning the family to the central place in the economic order it once occupied. These same family values were at the heart of the renewed plausibility and attractiveness of the conservative vision of work and success. When Sam Walton drove his old Ford pickup truck around Bentonville every day, it represented a promise that any Bentonville Ford driver could become Sam Walton. It was a cynical move, to be sure. But Walton’s gesture worked not just because liberal elites offered no alternatives but because it perfectly played on his employees’ deepest anxieties and beliefs.

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Sarah Ann Harris, ‘William Shakespeare 400th Anniversary: Can you recognise the words coined by the Bard?’, HuffPost, 21 April 2016 No Sweat Shakespeare, ‘Words Shakespeare Invented’, Roma Panganiban, ‘Twenty Words We Owe to Shakespeare’, Mental Floss, 31 January 2013 Daniel Swift, ‘Laughable Maybe, but Never Lacklustre: Words of the Bard’, Telegraph, 21 March 2014 Josie Gurney-Read, ‘How Well Do You Know Shakespeare’s Words?’, Telegraph, 21 March 2014 Including such words in antedatable totals would add two to the Swift, Mental Floss and No Sweat Shakespeare counts and one to the tally in Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. A further three words are on record shortly after Shakespeare’s usages, suggesting that they, too, may have been already active. Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: the World as a Stage, rev. Holger Schott Syme, ‘People Being Stupid About Shakespeare III’, 11 July 2011, Cited in Andrew Dickson, ‘Can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?’, Guardian, 23 February 2018 Over 60% of the words on Schäfer’s list that the OED currently records in use at a later date can be antedated further than Nashe on via EEBO. Nashe himself can now frequently be antedated. Jürgen Schäfer, Documentation in the OED (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). Thomas Heywood, Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy (London: W. 37, in EEBO-TCP Andrew Willett, An Antilogie or Counterplea to An Apologicall (he should haue said) Apologeticall Epistle published by a Favorite of the Romane Separation, and (as is supposed) one of the Ignatian Faction (London: Thomas Man, 1603), p. by Gervase Markham (London: James Roberts for Thomas Millington, 1597), p. Vertues teares for the losse of the most christian King Henry, trans. Murray, ‘Preface to Volume I’, in A New English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1888), p. 147, in EEBO-TCP Samuel Rowlands, (London: G. Edward Evans, Verba Dierum, or, The Dayes Report of Gods Glory (Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1615), p. 483, in EEBO-TCP Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe (London: N.L. by Josuah Sylvester (London: Humfrey Lounes, 1611), p. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes and Workes, trans. Hugh Craig, ‘Shakespeare’s Vocabulary: Myth and Reality’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 62.1 (2011), 53-74 (p. by Stephen Greenblatt and others (New York: Norton, 1997), p. Stephen Greenblatt in The Norton Shakespeare, ed. David Crystal and Ben Crystal, The Shakespeare Miscellany (London: Penguin, 2005), pp. David Crystal, Think On My Words (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. David Crystal, The Stories of English, 2nd edn (London: Penguin, 2005), p. edn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), p.

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210 Seth Lerer, Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, rev. Harold Bayley, The Shakespeare Symphony (London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), p. by Sylvia Adamson and others (London: Arden, 2001), p. 35 Terttu Nevalainen, ‘Shakespeare’s new Words’, in Reading Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language, ed. Russ McDonald, Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 repr. Rubinstein, Unmasking the Real Shakespeare: The Truth Will Out (London: Pearson, 2005 repr. Stephen Marche, How Shakespeare Changed Everything (New York: Harper Collins, 2011), p. by Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. Valenza, ‘Shakespeare’s Vocabulary: Did it Dwarf All Others?’, in S tylistics and Shakespeare’s Language: Transdisciplinary Approaches, ed. Alfred Hart, ‘The Growth of Shakespeare’s Vocabulary’, The Review of English Studies, 19.75 (1943), 242-254 (p. speaks, speaketh, spoke etc.), rather than lemmas (e.g. Figures in the region of 28-31,000 are sometimes given - these are counts of word forms (e.g. Subsequent scholars have not diverged significantly, with most figures coming in between 17,000-20,000. In 1943, Hart calculated Shakespeare’s lemmatized vocabulary as 17,677. Metcalf, Predicting New Words: the Secrets of their Success (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), p. 28 Richard Lederer, T he Miracle of Language, rev. Shipley, In Praise of English: The Growth and Use of Language (New York: Times Books, 1977), p. Stanley Wells, Shakespeare For All Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 109 Leslie Dunton-Downer and Alan Riding, Essential Shakespeare Handbook (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2004), p. by Will Sharpe and Erin Sullivan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), p. by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, 2nd edn, rev. Shakespeare and 'The Licence of Ink': Endnotesġ] Vivian Salmon in T he Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, ed.

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timeforabathblog · 4 years ago

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3. Plans for Chubb Place, 1930s

Earlier this year I was in touch with David Juler from the Museum of Oxford about some beautifully hand-painted plans held in the city council archives for a bathing place that was never built: Chubb Place.

I provided the following statement for the City Stories section of the MO’s website:

There was bathing in this area of the river, and even a built bathing place that leaves some remains today in the form of steps running into the water.

The Sunnymead and Cutteslowe Park Management Plan for 2018-2022 (available online) provides some insight into the area's history:

'Oxford City Council acquired Cutteslowe Park between 1936 and 1938. Sixty one acres were purchased in 1936, seven acres added in 1937, and a further six acres purchased from the Dean and Chaplain of Westminster in 1938. The site was previously a farm and allotments, and the Parks Depot retains many of the original 18th and 19th-century farm buildings, including the rather grand farmhouse...

'Sunnymead Park was once a council tip. After being covered, it was left for a long time as a wasteland area. It started being used as an unofficial motorbike track in the 1980s, triggering a public meeting and the creation of the ‘Cutteslowe/Sunnymead Group’. The group worked with the City Council to clear fly-tipping, create a sports zone, improve wildlife areas and paths and generally transform the site. The old Drovers road or droveway, a route used for driving livestock into Oxford’s markets, is still visible and remnants of an old bathing place can also be seen on the bank of the Cherwell.'

It seems like the Council commissioned the bathing place plans around the time when they acquired the land in the late 1930s (though looking more closely, I can see that one of the plans is dated 1935, so I'm not certain about the order of things here). Perhaps WWII got in the way...

As for the 'old bathing place' mentioned in the park management plan, I don't know when this was installed, though there is mention of 'Chubb's Corner' being used by boys from St Edward's school as early as the 1870s ('Fifty Years Ago', St Edward's School Chronicle, 402 (1925), p. 279), when it is referred to as the site of 'frequent skirmishes with the natives' (presumably referring to fights between St Edward's students and boys from the town).

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I’d also add that the first of these pictures represents one plan (presumably from a different architect / builder) the second and third another – and it’s interesting to note just how different the proposed bathing places would have been.

In the first plan, the area for swimming and bathing is situated in the River Cherwell itself, and the changing cubicles, flowerbeds and lawns in front of them arc majestically around a stretch of river like the seats and walls of an amphitheatre. Even in the approach to the bathing place by land, this arc is anticipated by a line of trees. Rather than being part of the background (as in the second plan) the river here is the centre of attention – everything faces towards it – and even the cubicles themselves individually look inwards onto the enclosed space.

In the second plan, on the other hand, bathers are funnelled according to gender through two rather meanly windowed, institutional-looking buildings before getting out to the two rectilinear pools – one for paddling, the other for swimming – both separated from river nearby.

Two very different visions of what a bathing place should be: one celebrating nature, open to the elements, theatrical and curvilinear; the other more hygienic and utilitarian, reinforcing a sense of difference between nature and civilisation, more concerned, perhaps, with cleanliness and exercise than communal spectacle, pleasure and play.

The difference between these two visions echoes wider cultural changes with regard to public bathing in Britain. Up until the 1930s, argued historian George Ryley Scott in 1939,

public baths presented no features destined to attract the populace in the sense that the ancient Romans and Greeks, and the Japanese, were attracted. They could offer no enticing features such as the thermal springs of Bath or Baden did. There was, in connexion with them, nothing to attract the sense that the sweating baths of seventeenth-century London attracted. On the contrary, these English and continental public baths provided a means for washing the body in the interests of cleanliness or health, or, later, for swimming as exercise. This much granted, their purpose began and ended. They provided no social atmosphere, they were in no sense rendezvous for gossiping or scandal-mongering; they were as far from one's conception of a haunt of pleasure as it was humanly possible to make them. They were drab and dreary. And they stank of officialdom and of patronage.

By contrast, the very word, ‘lido’ – drawn from the famous beach at Venice and popularised in Britain in this period as a term for an outdoor pool – suggested a casting off of the stigma surrounding the Victorian ‘washhouse’ in favour of a popular modernism, a renewal of public space in which pleasure and ‘social atmosphere’, in combination with sunlight and water, were placed front and centre.

Credit to Museum of Oxford for the pictures – more city stories here: https://museumofoxford.omeka.net/

Quote from George Ryley Scott, The Story of Baths and Bathing (London: Werner Laurie, 1939).

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missvalerietanner · 8 years ago

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Writers: It’s Never Been Too Long

Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--I can be more profound than I know.

My lovely friend, Shado, a while ago, posted that she worried that it may be too late to write a story she’d started in her teens, like she’d waited too long--perhaps outgrown the tale or just didn’t feel as connected to it anymore. And in response, I said:

“It’s never been too long. A story is always a story. It doesn’t rot; it just lingers, waiting in line for its turn at the window.”

I think about that quote a lot and not just when I need an ego boost (although it is printed and hanging on the wall in my office :B). I think about it because it haunts me. It reminds me of all the story ideas I’ve ever had and all the ones I’m yet to have and how they may not rot, but I will.

In a dark way, this is motivation, and I know this because when I was in high school (probably about 15 when I really started to find my darker writing side), I thought up a tale about a little boy who explores abandoned homes, and one day, he finds a little girl’s diary. He soon realizes while reading it that she’s in danger, but she’s leaving clues for someone to follow. The little boy becomes that someone, and he follows her trail of torn notebook pages from one abandoned structure to the next.

I don’t know how this story ends. This is as far as I got with it. But I do recall one scene where the boy entered a derelict home with a bathroom in the front. (And boy, I can picture that blue-tiled bathroom perfectly!) He thinks the house is empty until he hears growling. Panicked, he peeks around the bathroom to see a doberman (I was heavy into Resident Evil ;p) growling and ready to attack. The boy is forced to hide in the bathroom, barring the door with only his minimal weight to keep the dog out and himself alive. That scene haunted me for a long time--until I forgot about it and the boy’s entire story as well.

And then last night, I had a dream that forced me awake at 7AM covered in sweat. And that dream was the bathroom scene, and I was keeping the doberman out.

Stephen King said he first came up with the idea for the Dome in his twenties. He was so excited about the story, he cranked out the scene when the dome first gets dropped on the city and something gets crushed horribly. He dedicated 25-ish pages to that story, and then he stopped writing. He admitted that he wanted to write the story, but at the same time, he knew he wasn’t ready to write it. He wasn’t the writer the story needed him to be.

While him being able to recognize that truth is an accomplishment not many of us writers are good at, its a logic that applies to all of us. We all have stories, but sometimes, we’re not ready to write them the way they need to be written. Not yet.

The point to all this is that it’s the stories that know, not us. I dreamed about the doberman and the bathroom because somewhere in my mind--even though my consciousness hadn’t thought of this story in ages--it has been waiting, and it’s ready for its turn at the window. It’s ready to be written because I’ve grown into the writer it needed me to be.

And now, with almost 13 years of experience gained since I first crafted the idea of this story, I’m now more capable of writing it. I know the story needs to take place in the 1980s or earlier, in a time when children could wander off easily and not be missed for days. I understand the tone the story needs to have. I can picture the rustic, decaying setting so much easier (and I can describe it better too). I can take that simple summary from before and turn it into this:

It’s the story of an eight-year-old boy in Mississippi in 1979 who likes to explore abandoned homes in his small town, but in one of the homes on a hot, sticky July day, he finds sheets of paper torn from a notebook. And on the pages are a girl’s diary. Enthralled, he begins to read the girl’s words, getting absorbed in her world--until her story turns. It’s no longer about her parents and her annoying brother David picking at her. It’s no longer about her lonely days at school with no friends and the blue-eyed boy named Chad with the dreamy smile she stares at. Now it’s about a bearded man with rough, calloused hands who dragged her from school, who tore her pretty yellow dress and smeared mud across her white socks, and how she worries that her mom will scold her for getting so dirty. Her words are now panicked and etched into the paper with a heavy hand, and their weight begs for someone to help her. And the little boy is the only one who knows of her troubles.

In high school, I wrote constantly in notebooks, filing up one right after the other with stories and ideas. And I still have them all with me. I searched through them just now, looking for any evidence of this little boy’s tale, but I never wrote a single word on it. Or if I did, it’s been lost. But recalling this story now gives me energy, a blast of adrenaline toward writing that only flares up every once in a while.

So forget the stories you can’t write today or next week. Let them simmer. Let them wait. When they’re ready to return, they’ll let you know.

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Billy Bonds given hero’s welcome as West Ham unveil stand at London Stadium in his name

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Published: 17:29 GMT, March 2, 2019 | Updated: 20:43 GMT, March 2, 2019

West Ham welcomed Billy Bonds on the field before the game with Newcastle when the club revealed to stand London ] The current East Tribune, which has 20,000 home supporters, is now the Billy Bonds Stand when the club looked like a tribute to their record presenter.

Bonds, which twice lifted the FA Cup ] in 1975 and 1980, joined Hammers-magnitudes Bobby Moore and Sir Trevor Brooking in the immortalization in the stadium.

Billy, who was present with his family on his day and accompanied his former Hammers teammates, said earlier this week: "I have so many good memories of this club and this is really icing on the cake . It is a great honor and means so much to me and my family.

& # 39; To think that I am only the third West Ham player to receive this honor after Bobby Moore and Trevor Brooking, you can not get any better. Two people I admire, two great footballers and two great friends.

& # 39; I am very lucky – I have had so much support with this club over the years. The fans have always been great, from the first day. The only thing that I have always given was effort, and if the West Ham fans see that, they will forgive many things.

[I am very lucky – I have had so much support with this club over the years,

(League performances only) ]

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& # 39; It will be a special day on March 2nd. I really look forward and it will be nice for my family. I have two daughters and two granddaughters and they can not wait to go to the London Stadium to see it. I'm starting a little bit now, in my 70s, but it'll be great – if I'm not there anymore – for my granddaughters to come here and say, "That's Grandad's booth." That will be nice. & # 39;

The joint chairman David Sullivan and David Gold added: & # 39; This is a proud and historic moment for West Ham United, because we honor one of the biggest players who have ever signed the famous bordeaux and blue shirt.

& # 39; Since our move to the London stadium in the summer of 2016, it has always been our wish and intention to ensure that Billy is appropriately recognized and his name will now be permanent and proud with us home.

& # 39; To West Ham United supporters Billy Bonds embodies the heart and soul of our football club. A man who gave blood, sweat and tears in the course of a 21-year career and led the club with dignity and pride as a manager between 1990 and 1994.

& # 39; This honor is again a very positive step for the club at the London Stadium. With 60,000 supporters now present at home and paying appropriate tributes to our unique heritage and the biggest players in our history, we look forward to a bright and successful future.

He stayed in the club as a youth team coach, before he stepped up to take on first team tasks in February 1990 after the departure of Lou Macari.

He led the hammers through a tumultuous period and won two promotions to the top flight in 1991 and 1993, thereby paving the way for the club to establish itself as a Premier League side.

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9 Categories Of People Who Never Succeed Professionally

Experience and knowledge are no longer the key to business success. By studying the tasks we do at work, David Deming, Harvard economist,found that those who needed interpersonal skills increased by 24% between 1980 and today (which was unsurprisingly reflected in higher wages for this type of job), while those based on technical expertise and purely intellectual knowledge stagnated.

The increased importance of these skills is especially noticeable in people who are lacking them. We know who this concerns: those who do not stop talking when we try to meet deadlines, those who have no qualms about appropriating your ideas, those who let you work until no time to catch up with their mistakes, etc.

1. The cowards. Fear is an extremely powerful engine. This is why presidential candidates say that their opponent will “destroy the economy” and the ads warn you that “tobacco kills”. At work, those who are overwhelmed by fear have irrational and destructive behaviors. Frightened colleagues do not hesitate to accuse others, conceal the serious mistakes they have made, and they never defend those who are unjustly accused.

2. The Dementors. In J. K. Rowling’s books, the Dementors are evil creatures who feed on the souls of their victims. As soon as a Dementor enters a room, it becomes dark and icy, and the people there remember their worst memories. The author said that the idea came to him by observing very negative people, who are able to stifle the atmosphere only by their presence. The Dementors impose their negative view and pessimism on everyone they meet. With them, the glass is always half empty, and the least annoyance turns quickly to drama.

3. The arrogant ones. They make you waste time as they take everything you do for a challenge. The arrogance, which betrays their lack of assurance, is always the sign of huge complexes. A study from the University of Akron, Ohio, showed that arrogance was linked to a whole series of problems in the workplace. The arrogant personalities generally work less well and are more unpleasant than the others. They also have more cognitive disorders.

4. The proponents of the unique thought. They are in favor of the slightest effort and their motto is: “Anyway, we always did like that.” If you are stunned with what others think so-called, pay attention. Nobody has ever accomplished extraordinary things by limiting themselves to the status quo.

5. Those who never have luck. They do not hesitate to justify their lack of success by a lack of opportunities. Yet, if a small stroke of luck can actually give you the pulse that was missing, working hard is the key to success. What these people do not understand, they are not victims of the situation but of their state of mind.

6. Impulsives. Some people are absolutely unable to control their emotions. They assault you and imagine things, while thinking that you are the cause of their malaise. They do not do a good job because their emotions prevent them from seeing clearly and their absence of self-control isolates them more and more. Méfiez-you: when the time comes, you will serve them as an outlet.

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7. The victims. They are difficult to recognize because they begin to show empathy. Over time, however, we realize that they are constantly in demand. They do not assume their responsibilities because they are a mountain of the least obstacle. For them, failures are not used to question oneself in order to do better the next time, but to give up.

8. The good pears. Hard not to feel sympathy for them. They find themselves babysitting for the boss – a Sunday! – while they worked very late the day before. For different reasons,the good pears (which are often not there for a long time) let go, until the day when the river turns into a raging ocean. We have every right to negotiate wages, to say no, and to question the way things are done in the box. To be respected,you have to defend your rights at the right time.

9. Those who do not stop apologizing. For every person who would do well to recognize his wrongs, there is another who does it too often. People who do not have enough self-confidence are constantly apologizing for proposing such an idea or doing something else.

They may fail and think that these repeated excuses will protect them. In fact, they devalue their contribution, and their suggestions are rarely accepted. It is important to give your voice and physical stance to your ideas. Do not express them especially in the form of a question. If you feel that what you say deserves to be heard, assume, and share your opinion without excusing yourself.

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The Globalist Takeover of the InternetLong before fake news or Net Neutrality (N.N.) became major media topics, the U.S. government was already orchestrating a legal crackdown on anything it would eventually label fake news.N.N. was just one move in a sequence of events to completely take over the internet. A sequence that happened so slowly none of you noticed it happening at all. After all, Net Neutrality wasn't even all that bad, right? Sure the internet became a quasi-utility, but it didn't really affect you. If anything, you got a chance to finally stick it to Comcast! Go you! Right?But is anything ever that simple?Ask yourself why N.N. came out of nowhere. Why was it so heavily advertised? Who paid for the advertising? And who benefited from it?Now ask yourself what sequence led up to N.N. and who led it to there? Where did the sequence intend to end? Believe it or not, the sequence already came to completion. On Obama's final month in office, the internet was quietly nationalized by legislation he signed the day before Christmas Eve. The president himself became legally capable of taking down any website in the United States within minutes. Of course, that was ruined by the election.This is a long piece, and the beginning will cover some material that you already know but it is crucial to understand the big picture. I split this into two posts, the first one covers the two-decade buildup to Net Neutrality, which I will summarize below for those who are lazy.1950 - EducationU.S. House of Representatives commissions the Reese Committee to investigate potential communist influence of domestic NGOs and nonprofits. Head investigator, Norman Dodd, published the final report in which he discovers that the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were actively influencing universities to promote "moral relativism" and "internationalism" to the end of "oligarchic collectivism." In other words, globalism. His report was silenced and the two-year investigation was abruptly shut down.1980 - Civil Society SectorThe civil society sector is typically understood to be comprised of NGOs and nonprofits that, according to conventional wisdom, engage in humanitarian efforts, human rights advocacy, government accountability, and other international efforts of the sort. But if that was ever true, it isn't anymore, and hasn't been for decades. By 1980 all of civil society had been taken over by private and state interests, operating as proxies for their agendas. Just as Norman Dodd had discovered. Julian Assange gives the contemporary example of Google Ideas, a think-tank that proxies high-risk endeavors directly for the White House. Google Ideas was heavily involved in the Arab Spring, which was instigated by social media. VP of Stratfor said they have a "covert role in foaming up-risings," and that "they are doing things the CIA cannot do."1990 - MediaBill Clinton's Telecommunication Act of 1996 legalizes the monopolization of the media, paving the way for a two-decade globalist crusade to consolidate dozens of media outlets into just six. And just like that, the globalists need only pluck six strings to make us dance to their false song. Comcast, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, News Corp, CBS, and still shrinking.2000 - Social MediaThis section is best summarized by a quote from a reddit user."If you happen to have a right-wing perspective, Google puts your search results on the 10th page, Youtube demonetizes your videos (or removes them), Twitter bans your account, and Facebook censors your posts so they never show up in the news feed." -/u/spydiggity2010 - The InternetThe globalists, having solidified their control over banks, education, civil society, media, and social media, now turn their gaze to the crown jewel of their decades-long pursuit: the internet itself.Already controlling much of the internet's media and all the social media platforms that propagate it, the only thing left for the globalists to control is the infrastructure itself that comprises the internet. That's why ISPs are important now. Before Verizon v. FCC, the FCC classified ISPs under Title I of Clinton's 1996 Telecommunications Act, meaning they acted as private entities with minimal regulation from the government. Separate and unrelated to that classification, the FCC held ISPs accountable to the Open-Internet Rules (no throttling, no blocking, no paid-prioritization).Verizon v. FCC changed that, ruling that if the FCC wanted to enforce Open-Internet Rules they need to re-classify ISPs under Title II as quasi-utilities strictly regulated as "common carriers", effectively a state-licensed monopoly. The most critical factor here is that under Title II, ISPs need to apply for Broadcasting Licenses, which give the government massive leverage over them. There was an insane amount of influence being exerted over Verizon v. FCC by tech companies and their politicians. Netflix allegedly manipulated their own service to frame the ISPs for throttling. The full extent of the influence is not yet known. It may be that the lawsuit's outcome was sheer coincidence. Regardless, this was a huge win for the globalists, because now they are one step closer to forcing ISPs to apply for Broadcasting Licenses and regularly renew them. Without a license, the ISPs go bankrupt. The government can leverage this over them. Remember this, because Broadcasting Licenses become the globalist's most valuable weapon in just one act more of legislation.Three judges presided over the case, two Democrats, one Republican:Laurence H. Silberman (appointed by Ronald Reagan)Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (appointed by Bill Clinton)David S. Tatel (appointed by Bill Clinton)The Clinton-appointee Democrats ruled in favor of the Title II classification ruling. The Reagan-appointee partially dissented. No surprise. Now the FCC is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they want to enforce Open-Internet they have to practically nationalize the internet, and any company that wants to offer access to the internet must receive a Broadcasting License. The FCC is stumped and can't really figure out what to do next... So Obama comes in to save the day. He pressures them to move forward with the Title II classification and give the government sweeping authority over internet infrastructure. This potentially unpopular move is quickly rebranded with a cute name and sold to the public as... Net Neutrality. Surprise!The public is told that they are saving the internet! But saving it from whom? Hahaha from the very people who are telling them to save it! Whether by intent or by circumstance, the globalists ended up playing both sides and winning. They revoked Open Internet in Verizon v. FCC, repackaged it, and gave it back to us in a box full of red tape.Now here's where the story picks up...Net Neutrality invokes Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to require all ISPs and any company that provides internet service to register for Broadcasting Licenses from the government and regularly renew them.Well... what if the FCC doesn't want to renew them? Ah but that's crazy talk, the FCC can't just revoke Broadcasting Licenses on a whim. It would be taken to court within seconds!But imagine what happens when you're appointed by the president as chairman of the FCC, and shortly after you get a call. And that call you get is from whatever said globalist president rules your timeline. And that globalist president tells you that a particular ISP needs to have its license revoked because it's violating federal law. Well, you'd probably say "fuck you I voted for Trump" and just hang up. But then the office phones start ringing and you get a little nervous because now other government bodies are calling in, all substantiating that yes, in fact, the ISP really is breaking the law. So you hang up, call your lawyer, and ask him to look up all the laws they were talking about to see if the ISP really is violating them. After all, what kind of law would justify such an abuse of power? None, in fact, that you know of. The next thing that will happen is your lawyer will walk into your office, looking pale as a ghost, and hand you a legal document titled Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S.2692).This is where everything comes together.Beads of sweat start to form on your forehead as you begin reading the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S.2692). You put it down and look up at your lawyer, realizing why his face is drained of life. It was drained by the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S.2692). You're about to ask him a question about the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S.2692), but you pause, and another thought strikes you-"Why don't they just call it 'The InfoWars Act'?"Your lawyer simply closes his eyes, as if with erotic satisfaction, and quickly whispers under his breath "...Bill Clinton is a rapist." You look back at the InfoWars Act to read its mission statement....counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department..."That's so bizarre, you think to yourself. Usually agencies are created independent from other branches of government, specifically to preserve accountability and dissuade corrupting influences. Why would you bother creating a new independent agency if you're literally going to house it in the White House?interagency centerOkay so it's a center, of multiple agencies. In the White House...p. 1399 - The head of the Center... shall be appointed by the President....that answers directly to the President? Okay? What exactly is it going to do?Maintain, collect, use, and disseminate records for research and data analysis of foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation effortsWait what? Non-state propaganda? You mean like my evening shitposts on T_D? What the fuck does that mean? Literally everyone on the planet is not a state. And how exactly is propaganda defined? Huh, that's strange... there's no definition in here. Like they deliberately omitted it so they can just... call it whatever they want. Incredible.You look up to your lawyer, "How the fuck did Obama get this through Congress?"Your lawyer drops another file on your desk. It looks suspiciously familiar."He didn't."The file is titled National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017,"He waited until Christmas Eve and hid it inside of the 3,000 page annual military budget so nobody would notice it.""Ohhhh shit yeah this is that fuckin propaganda thing that Obama legalized I always see it get reposted on The Donald! God, what a Kenyan pedophile thing to do, amirite?""So you've already read through it?""Oh... yeah no I'm a simple guy I just see a grey arrow and I make it orange.""Jesus Christ." The lawyer flips through the 3,076 pages of the NDAA to page 1,396 (or 1,438 in pdf format).SEC. 1287. GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER."This is so much more than just propaganda. Look at what they're going to be doing."Identifying current and emerging trends in foreign propaganda and disinformation, including the use of print, broadcast, online and social media, support for third-party outlets such as think tanks, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations, and the use of covert or clandestine special operators and agents to influence targeted populations and governments in order to coordinate and shape the development of tactics, techniques, and procedures to expose and refute foreign misinformation and disinformation"Clandestine special operators?? That's like some Tom Clancey shit!""Not even Tom Clancey would write something like this. Earlier you called this a 'Kenyan' thing to do. But even Kenyans have never sent secret agents to brainwash their people. Really let that sink in.""Yeah... Malik Obama would never do that."The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists..."But just when it couldn't get worse... it gets way fucking worse."Second, the legislation seeks to leverage expertise from outside government... provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government..."They call in their globalist friends from some "totally neutral third-party" and together they can call anyone a propagandist. They can go after literally anybody who's been flagged by a third-party "fact-checker" without having to take them to court. ""Oh fuck.""Those fact-checkers were there all along for a reason. They started by flooding the internet with disinformation and then branding the cute term "fake news" to generate a demand for fact-checkers. And then they satisfied the demand that they created. They trained the public to accept the idea of "neutral third-parties" policing online content. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google, all the tech companies, and the White House itself were planning to use bots to auto-flag-and-censor any content that contradicts the fact-checkers... across the entire internet. ""Fuckin' Snopes.""It's brilliant, really. They control the fact-checkers, the enforcers, and with the passage of Title II, the infrastructure to utilize them. Once a propagandist has been targeted, the President can use absolutely anything in the government to stop them."The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign disinformation operations...And that's it ladies and gentlemen.That's why passing Net Neutrality is so important.The President uses the "whole-of-government" to suppress information. Thanks to Net Neutrality's Title II, they can order all ISPs to take down hostile information and any websites that distribute it. If the ISP refuses, their Title II Broadcasting License is legally revoked, they can no longer do business, they go bankrupt, and the government buys out their infrastructure. The government can integrate into the ISPs to censor anything, anywhere, at anytime. The ISPs are forced to obey.STORY TIME IS OVER THIS IS ACTUALLY REALAre you imagining how real this is?They can physically shut down your access to the internet without a court order! Just because someone called you a propagandist! Just because you shitpost on The_Donald! They can take down Drudge Report, Breitbart, The_Donald, 4chan, Voat, and any other right-wing website that pops up to replace it! They would have done this slowly, over the course of years, like they always do, so that nobody would notice until it's too late! They could've taken us down one buy one, year by year, and quietly suppress any online reactions!And it was 100% legal! They passed every law they needed to do it!YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO HAVE WON THE ELECTION BECAUSE THERE WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ANOTHER ONE AGAIN.AND NOW ONE FINAL QUOTE:p.1446 - "The Center shall terminate on the date that is 8 years after the date of the enactment of this Act."They thought she would win.[LAUGHS IN KENYAN] via /r/The_Donald

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Fire And Fury Time

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One of Bloomberg’s Wall Street cheerleaders let loose of a deep secret yesterday. When the S&P 500 reversed sharply from its intraday all-time high in response to the Donald’s “fire and fury” demarche, Mark Cudmore explained why the index has probably topped out for the summer:

Not to overplay the value of seasonal patterns, but there’s an intuitive reason why August is by far the worst month for the S&P 500 over the last 20 years — people don’t like fighting the market from the Hamptons.

Say it isn’t so!

The titans of Wall Street are supposed to be doing god’s work pushing the stock averages ever higher, not sipping on a “Hot Skinny Wench” of silver tequila, agave, jalapeno and citrus at their favorite Hamptons watering hole.

Then again, Mr. Cudmore may have been on to something. The casino has become so addicted to central bank liquidity and buying the dip that the only thing which can interrupt the relentless climb of stock prices, apparently, is beach time in the second half of August.

To be clear, we aren’t arguing for a Korea Panic. We just don’t buy CNN’s breathless alarmism about the Donald’s statement or think that nuclear armageddon on the Korean peninsula is about to break-out any time soon. In fact, we are downright suspicious about the “leak” which apparently triggered yesterday’s contretemps.

It seems that just in the nick of time to keep the North Korean nuke “threat” at full boil, the intelligence community (IC) favored the CIA’s house organ, the Washington Post, with a strategically leaked answer to the obvious point. Kim Jong-un’s recent ICBM test doesn’t put Los Angeles in imminent danger. That’s because North Korea hasn’t yet miniaturized its clunky 1950’s vintage A-bombs so that they fit in the cone of a missile.

Well, contrary to common knowledge among experts, suddenly it has.

North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. The IC [intelligence community] assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles,” the assessment states, in an excerpt read to The Washington Post. Two U.S. officials familiar with the assessment verified its broad conclusions.

Forgive the cynicism and history reference, but we are tempted to ask: Does Colin Powell concur with the “assessment” of these two anonymous officials?

Are those cited even real spooks, or just some fat guys in the basement of a house in Langley, VA?

When the former national security advisor went off half-cocked based on faulty “intelligence” about Saddam’s WMDs, of course, he did it at the UN in full dress diplomatic language.

By contrast, the Donald was alone with his Twitter account at his Bedminster golf club, where he channeled Mr. Kim’s very own vernacular:

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Thank you.”

The point is not merely that the Donald’s bluster was inopportune, unscripted, exceedingly dangerous and shockingly blunt. That part of it was made completely “inoperative” within hours by his Secretary of State, who took the Trumpian kettle off the stove and doused it in an ice tub:

Separately, in an attempt at de-escalation, Sec. State Rex Tillerson also stepped in to calm the mood, when speaking to reporters this morning, he says he doesn’t believe there is “any imminent threat” from North Korea, and says that they should “have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.” As the AP adds, he downplayed speculation that the US was moving closer to a military option.

In an amusing twist, Tillerson tried to justify Trump’s bombastic threats, saying that “Trump is sending a message to North Korea in language Kim Jong Un would understand.”

What the markets are ignoring is not that Trump’s impulsive tweets might start a catastrophic war, but that the reality is he has already been sunk by the Deep State and its allies.

There is no way that a Secretary of State would gut the words of a President in the manner of Tillerson’s repost from Guam if the President were speaking for the machinery of state.

Wall Street is not remotely prepared for the upcoming breakdown of fiscal governance and the Washington kabuki dance which will lead up to the Donald’s last ride on the White House helicopter. The straws are already in the wind and by next Groundhog Day the broken furniture will be piled high in front of the Oval Office door.

It can be taken as virtually a given that there will be no FY 2018 budget resolution and that after repeated showdowns and shutdowns during October-November. There will be nothing more than short-term patches on the debt ceiling and continuing resolutions for next year’s $1.2 trillion worth of appropriations bills.

That means legislative food fights over these short-term patches and expedients will become the permanent business of Washington, not the rebirth of pro-growth policies fantasized by Wall Street.

The myth that the so-called GOP majority is capable of passing a sweeping tax cut stimulus, or even any tax bill at all, will be dead by February. As a procedural matter, there is no possibility of a tax bill from the US Senate.

If a GOP consensus on a 10-year budget plan – including the cuts that would be needed to pay for making America’s war machine “great again” along with border construction, veterans and even a modest tax cut – actually existed, an FY 2018 budget resolution would have passed weeks ago.

The talking heads on TV have suggested that there is no reason to sweat a delay on the tax bill. The general sentiment amongst pundits is that the market is a discounting mechanism and that an eventual cut in the corporate tax rate will permanently raise cash flows and stock prices. Yes, and if dogs could whistle, the world would be a chorus!

At the end of the day, all roads lead back to the Gipper and the giant one-of-a-kind tax cut accident of July 1981. When fully effective in the late 1980s, the Reagan tax cut knocked down Federal revenues by a staggering $1.1 trillion per year in today’s sized economy. But it was all paid for by massive increases in the public debt. That increase was made possible because of a clean national balance sheet in 1980, and by subsequent “tax grabs” in which upwards of 40% of the revenue loss from the tax bidding war of 1981 was recouped.

Those recoupment bills of 1982-1984 and the subsequent bipartisan revenue neutral tax reform of 1986 hang heavily, if unnoticed, over the present tax bill debate. Namely, they removed most of the politically achievable loopholes from the tax code. What is left is a hardcore of “incentives” and “fairness” measures that have weathered 30 years of political challenge.

In short, there are no “payfors” that amount to a hill of beans on the revenue neutral tax bill front. There is no conceivable increase in the national debt ceiling that could enable a Reagan-style deficit-financed tax cut. That fact is that even the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that the built-in “current policy” deficit over the next decade will total upwards of $12 trillion before a single dime of new tax cut is added on top.

The chart below, in fact, explains where Trump is starting relative to the Gipper, and why he will end there, as well.

The only thing that can save Trump’s presidency is a successful GOP tax bill. But the clock is running out and the legislative and policy barriers are nearly insurmountable.

The Donald’s single greatest applause line during the campaign, outside of denouncing bad trade deals, was his full throated attack on ObamaCare. But when faced with an emergency continuing resolution (CR) containing an ObamaCare bailout, Trump will be in no position to challenge the Congress.

He will be forced to sign, amid swirling intra-GOP recriminations, a bill that will mark the end of his improbable sojourn in the Oval Office.

With no tax bill and a humiliating defeat on ObamaCare, the GOP will face the prospect of harsh elections in November 2018. That will be especially true because by then Robert Mueller’s squad of legal assassins will have made mincemeat of the Trump family and anyone who supported him in the early days (such as Paul Manafort, General Flynn and Jeff Sessions).

At that point, the GOP’s only hope will be to offer up a scapegoat. As with Nixon, it will do so once the polls show that removal of the Donald has become a condition of survival.

Then the Fire and Fury will really begin.

Regards, David Stockman for The Daily Reckoning

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Billy Bonds given heroes welcome as West Ham unveil stand at London Stadium in his name

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The East Stand has been a member of the East Stand and was a member of the club.

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Published: 17:29 GMT, March 2, 2019 | Updated: 17:29 GMT, March 2, 2019

Bonds, which twice lifted the FA Cup ] in 1975 and 1980, joined Hammers-magnitudes Bobby Moore and Sir Trevor Brooking in the immortalization in the stadium.

Billy, who was present with his family on his day and accompanied his former Hammers teammates, said earlier this week: "I have so many great memories of this club and this is really icing on the cake . It is a great honor and means so much to me and my family.

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He stayed in the club as a youth team coach, before he stepped up to take on first team tasks in February 1990 after the departure of Lou Macari.

He led the hammers through a tumultuous period and won two promotions to the top flight in 1991 and 1993, thereby paving the way for the club to establish itself as a Premier League side.

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